Financial District With its numerous skyscrapers and narrow alleyways, the Financial District encourages players to leave their vehicles behind and take to the streets to engage in intense fire fights. Two of which, the Financial District and the Waterfront District serve as the main staging areas for APB’s combat heavy gameplay, while the Social District focuses on friends, clans and customization as well as having an increased population cap. Set in the fictional west-coast metropolis of San Paro, APB divides the city into three distinct districts. This type of activity doesn't stay unopposed for long however, as patrolling enforcers are able to report any witnessed criminal activity resulting in the immediate dispatch of other rank-matched enforcers. Once under the wing of their chosen gang, budding criminals are able to bring death and destruction to San-Paro by picking up missions and bounties from gang leaders or simply by causing indiscriminate chaos on the streets. Not unlike their badged counterparts, wannabe bad dudes are able to join one of the two major criminal organizations (aka gangs) in San-Paro, the Blood Roses or the G-Kings. Whatever you call them, Criminals are motivated by two things - money and power. Thug, gang-banger or just an all round bad guy. Criminals He dares you to try spotting all of his stereotypical clichés. That however is not to say Enforcers must be squeaky clean, with infractions often able to be overlooked by bribing a contact within your organization.
As the player progresses, the will receive missions from increasingly higher ranking contactsĮnforcers are incentivised to adhere to a code of conduct that prohibits such things as harming innocent NPC bystanders or dangerous driving and rewards using non-lethal force whenever possible. Each featuring their own unique chain of command, players are able to work their way up the ranks of their chosen organization by accepting missions from NPC contacts. Given a gun and a badge, they have the freedom to enforce the law however they see fit, but reckless use of lethal force carries consequences.įresh-faced recruits have the option of aligning themselves with one of two enforcer organizations, the Praetorians or the Prentiss Tigers. Not your typical policeman, Enforcers are deputized mercenaries tasked with cleaning up the city of San-Paro. Enforcers Sometimes a badge is all that separates the enforcers from the criminals. Each faction have multiple organizations that players may choose to align themselves with. robbers' theme, APB features only 2 factions - Enforcers and Criminals. Factionsĭesigned around the common 'cops vs. The re-branded version was later ported by The Workshop (and published digitally by Ravenscourt) to the Xbox One on Jand the PlayStation 4 on March 31, 2017.
Prior to the game's free-to-play re-brand, players could also sell the items to earn special "RTW" points that were used for extending game time in the Action Districts. Players can also sell these custom items via an auction house for in-game currency. Players are also ranked based on their Prestige level (for the Enforcer players) or their Notoriety level (for the Criminal players), which can rise and fall based on the actions those players take.Īlong with standard customizable characters, the game is known for its robust creation tools for character outfit designs, vehicle paint jobs, and musical player-specific themes. Rather than a traditional persistent experience point system of most MMO games (alongside standard "fetch quests", Skill Points, and Classes), players instead earn money for participating in each mission and purchase upgrades for their weapons and vehicles. It focuses on PVP team-based action in an open-world environment, as players from one faction are dispatched to stop the other faction from completing their objectives. It was discontinued later that year, only to be revived in Decem(developed by Reloaded Productions and published by GamersFirst) as a free-to-play re-brand known as APB: Reloaded.Ĭreated by the developers of Crackdown, APB pits players in two factions (the vigilante Enforcers and the anarchistic Criminals) against each-other in the fictional modern-day urban city of San Paro.
APB: All Points Bulletin (not to be confused with the 1987 arcade game of the same name) is a massively-multiplayer online crime-themed third-person shooter developed and published by Realtime Worlds and published by EA for the PC on June 29, 2010.